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A North Carolina woman is on the verge of saving her adoptive father's life—something she believes she was destined to do, ABC News reports. "She told me, 'Daddy, you thought you were saving my life pulling me from foster care but in actuality, you were saving my life so I could save yours later,'" Billy Houze, 64, tells Good Morning America. "I am extremely proud of her." And no doubt relieved, after doctors told him in 2016 he wouldn't live beyond 2021 with two spent kidneys. But his sons were not transplant matches, and the wait list was seven years. That left his adopted daughter, DeLauren McKnight: "DeLauren said, 'Daddy, I have your kidney, and I'm going to be tested,'" he tells the Shelby Star. "She believed divinely she was going to be a match."

A longtime Baptist pastor who traveled as a musician and evangelist, Houze was ready for good news—divinely inspired or otherwise. A simple 2016 gall bladder surgery had caused his hemoglobin to fall so precipitously that he collapsed before leaving the hospital. He woke up in ICU on dialysis that would tire and tax his body to this day. But he had a hidden angel in McKnight, who was born in 1992 to a drug-abusing relative but miraculously tested negative for drugs. The Houzes adopted the girl, who learned Feb. 1 she was a "perfect" kidney match for her adoptive dad, she tells WBTV. She remembers calling to tell him: "He stopped talking and he was crying," McKnight says. "I was shaking. It was overwhelming." Houze expects to have surgery within a few weeks. (Read more uplifting news stories.)

sounds like a very nice guy and an even nicer young lady. would love to believe that there are more people like these than the guys in NZ

SDD

Mar 16, 2019 6:18 PM CDT

Kick ass. Great blurb!

jerrymac

Mar 16, 2019 4:44 PM CDT

"Now backtrack to 1992, when his wife Karen's great-niece, a suicidal drug abuser, gave birth to a child that somehow tested negative for drugs. That's how the Houzes adopted McKnight, who learned Feb. 1 she was a "perfect" kidney match for her adoptive dad [...]" Hmmm...OK, let's backtrack...His wife's great niece gave birth to a child, which they adopted in 1992. That child is a miraculous "perfect match" for her adoptive father. She bears a striking resemblance to her adoptive daddy. Could it be that "daddy" dipped his wick outside the marital bedroom and ultimately fathered, and adopted, the girl who would ultimately save his life? Just postulating...